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All Other University Lectures, 1932 - 1987

 File — Box: 7, Folder: 6-8

Scope and Contents

20 pamphlets containing various lectures and other printed ephemera given at universities across the globe. The majority are from the United States and United Kingdom, but pamphlets from universities in Canada, the Netherlands, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Australia are also present. Occasional manuscript material such as letters, leaflets, or other small pieces of ephemera are present along with individual pamphlets. Lecture dates reflect when the talk was delivered, and do not necessarily match the publication year.

United States (1941-1987)

1941: Howard F. Lowry, “Matthew Arnold and the Modern World”
1960: Harry Levin, “Irving Babbitt and the Teaching of Literature”
1963: John F. Kennedy, “Toward a Strategy of Peace”
1975: Leon Edel, “The Cult of Inexperience”
1982: Paul Kafka, “Home Again”
1986: Geoffrey Parker, “Europe and the Wider World 1500-1750: The Military Balance”

United Kingdom (1958-1973)

[University of Newcastle], “The Percy Building”, 1958
1960: Norman Sykes, “Sixty Years Since: Some Changes in Theological Thought Since 1900 in respect of the Quest of the Historical Jesus”
1961: Edmund W. Gilbert, “University Towns”
1962: Sir Julian Huxley, “Education and the Humanist Revolution”
1962: A.H. Birch, “The Idea of Responsible Government”
1968: Basil Blackwell, “Letters in the New Age”
1969: C. Day-Lewis, “On Translating Poetry”
1971: E.A.J. Honigmann, “Shakespearian Tragedy and the Mixed Response”
1973: Lord Ritchie-Calder, “The Internationalist in the World of Nationalism”

Miscellaneous (1932-1965)

1932: Lord Irwin, “Some Aspects of the Indian Problem”
1946: A.N. Jeffares, “A Poet and a Theatre”
1954: L.C. Beadle, “The Art of Science”
1954: Wolf Leslau, “The Scientific Investigation of the Ethiopic Languages”
1965: C.O. Brink, “On Reading a Horatian Satire”

Dates

  • 1932 - 1987

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

From the Collection: 7.5 Cubic Feet (21 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Creator

Repository Details

Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository

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